How to Ditch Blackheads for Good

Stop Squeezing Your Blackheads For the love of everything good: Get your hands off your face. "Often, people use too much pressure or just push more dirt in to pores, further inflaming them, not to mention cross-contaminating other areas of the skin. It can also lead to scarring, hyperpigmentation and broken capillaries -- all of which are difficult to later fix," Bratschi says.

If you squeeze a blackhead and it "turns into a giant scar, it can cost you thousands of bucks to fix it," adds Lancer. Blackhead treatments take time to work (we're talking around three weeks), so you'll need to be patient, says Gohara.

I bought the Citrus Clear Grapefruit Spot Treatment to reduce the oil on my combination skin and to get rid of some of my blackheads. Yes! You can use the Citrus Clear spot treatment as a mask as well! My dermatologist told me this, and I am so happy about it!
I rinse with lots of warm water to open my pores and then use the Citrus Clear Grapefruit Spot Treatment. About half of my blackheads go away each time I use it! It's a fantastic product and I'm addicted.

I am constantly fighting blackheads so these tips have been insightful. I have used masks with kaolin and I agree that they help draw out the impurities and blackheads from the skin. I only wish the effects lasted.